A BL1-R72G equipped with gold hardware.

Gold hardware matches well to black body with maple neck.

According to “The Study Of Bill Lawrence Guitars”(closed), it seems to be around 1987 that R or M character which meant fingerboard material, following just after BL-1 letter was used to start.  Just before this period, the letters were located just before the character which meant its finish at the end of the script.

According to this rule, this one should have rose fingerboard.  But, as you see, this is nothing more than maple, of course no evidences of neck exchange.

At first, I thought this is an exception.  But the other day I found the same type of script on a BL-2.  In short, the neck pocket information is not always reliable.  We should take it just for reference.

BL-1 with gold parts seems to be observed on 1989 catalogue as BL-1 R65G.  This one may be sold as that.  The BL-series was completely disappeared from catalogue in 1990.

Alder body, 3.43kg including strings. (Updated 2021.1.2)